Astronomers have long considered it inevitable that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the neighboring galaxy ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda are the two biggest objects in what is called the Local Group, which is just a collection of our closest intergalactic neighbors. And as is implied by the word ...

Andromeda and the Milky Way are the two biggest members of the Local Group, a small clutch of about 100 galaxies, most of which are much smaller and fainter. The next two largest are the ...

THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

The seven images of our cosmic neighbors shared by NASA includes VV124, Tucana Dwarf, Tarantula Nebula, NGC 1898, NGC 261, ...

The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and their retinue of a few dozen smaller galaxies make up what astronomers call the Local Group. In recent decades, it has become clear that most galaxies are ...

That's because both the Milky Way and Andromeda inhabit a "local group" of galaxies, and two in particular (M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud) may exert gravitational influences that deter such a ...

Sawala and his colleagues simulated possible scenarios for the evolution of the Local Group in which the Milky Way and the Andromeda reside along with several other galaxies. Breaking space news ...

Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of three large galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies. The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog ...

Sunrise: 6:52 A.M. Sunset: 6:49 P.M. Moonrise: 12:32 A.M. Moonset: 4:17 P.M. With no Moon in the evening sky, tonight is a ...

The Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with a nearby galaxy in the next 10 billion years, a new study finds. Yet while those odds appear daunting, the new finding suggests the catastrophic ...

NEW YORK – Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets ...